We went home to San Angelo for a nice 3-day weekend. Mom & Dad treated us to a night at the rodeo. We took our nephew Clayton with us.
Hanging out with a baby buffalo.
Nothing like pre-rodeo cotton candy.
This poor guy below lasted all of 2 seconds. Yes, that is his right leg coming to meet his face.
The next day we went to my Aunt Millie’s house. She has some new baby goats that the kids wanted to feed.
And finally, the car ride home. Here is a picture of our sleepy girls.
Blake is celebrating his last year in his twenties with this birthday so we thought we would start the celebrations early this year. Addie and I met him for lunch at one of his favorite places to eat on Monday. We enjoyed some yummy food and even better dessert.
Happy 29th Birthday Daddy! We can’t wait to celebrate with you and all the family at the Rodeo on Saturday!
Thanks to a recent Eversave deal, Addie and I finally ventured down to the downtown San Antonio children’s yesterday. I’ve been avoiding it for the last five years mainly because I don’t do traffic, driving downtown and parking garages. It was a lot of fun and after about the first half hour of being there, the school field trip groups cleared out and we pretty much had the place to ourselves. It was well worth the trip downtown, I’m just glad I don’t have to deal with parking garages with our normal stomping grounds at the New Braunfels Children’s Museum.
Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the day…
Hopping aboard the trolley!
She loved the fish tank for some reason. I guess she forgets that she has practically grown up at Sea World.
Blowing bubbles in the bubble room. Yes, they do have an entire room dedicated to bubbles!
She worked so hard turning the wheel so her lego would fall over the edge and bounce off the ball. She did this over and over.
Addie already loved the grocery store at the New Braunfels Children’s Museum and this one put it to shame. Needless to say, we spent a good hour of our two hour stay buying groceries and restocking the shelves.
No grocery trip is complete without a little bit of ice cream and fresh fish.
Milking the cow. She was pretty sure this was a statue but kept an eye on the cow just in case.
Collecting eggs from the henhouse. I love that sweet smile!
This was by far my favorite activity. It’s a series of pipes , levers, wheels and such powered by air to carry the balls through to a central bucket. Every so often the bucket would dump all the balls onto the heads of any unsuspecting kids.
If you look closely, you can see balls falling in the middle of the picture. I wasn’t able to convince Addie to go stand in the middle. Maybe next time.
If you can deal with getting lost downtown (and I usually have such a good sense of direction too!), parking garages that seem too tiny for even the most compact of cars (we managed to make it up and down from the 6th level all in one piece) and traffic (we went in the middle of the afternoon so it wasn’t too terrible), I would highly recommend making a stop at the San Antonio Children’s Museum.
We are usually not big Valentine’s Day people, but this year I thought I would try to do something a little special for the kids. Over the weekend I tried out some of my shaped pancake molds. They loved it so what better way to celebrate Valentines than with heart shaped pancakes!
I think they enjoyed coming down and having breakfast at such a festive table (at least festive for this house!).
I usually don’t post silly things the kids say because most of the time I’m pretty sure it’s one of those “guess you had to be there” moments. These may fall into that category too but I’ve fallen behind on keeping up with the scrapbooks lately so I’m hoping that one day I’ll be able to use the blog to help me get caught up.
#1: Today my pretty little girl accompanied me over to some friends house to deliver a meal and get my newborn fix for the next few months. Upon leaving, she asked why we didn’t stay and play for a while. I tried to explain to her that since this was the couple’s first baby and had just been born from his mommy’s tummy that they didn’t need a lot of toys yet.
Addie’s response: “Did his mommy eat him?”
I love the simplicity of the three year old mind.
#2: Addie was playing with a spinning top type toy in the kitchen after lunch while I was cleaning up. She’s giving me a play by play of what the top is doing. I, of course, was only half listening over the noise of doing the dishes and responded with the go to phrase of “oh, that’s cool”.
Addie’s response: “No mom, it’s not cool. This is serious!”
I’m not exactly sure what she was telling me but her response told me that I wasn’t listening as closely as I should have been.
#3: This is actually one that happened a few days ago that Blake shared with me. If you know me very well at all, you know I love to shop ahead and try to get good deals on things the kids will need in the future. This means that Addie has about a years worth of shoes stored in the top cabinet of her dresser that she still needs to grow into wearing. One morning while Blake was helping her get dressed and there was a comment made about her shoes getting too small, she shared a plan with him to solve that problem.
Addie’s response: “That’s okay Daddy. We can just put them in my cabinet. That’s where Mommy puts shoes to make them bigger for me.”
I love my sweet little girl and how often she brings a good chuckle into our lives.
Since Addie and I have had to stay closer to home this week due to the flooring project, I’ve managed to find some time to work on some unfinished projects and crafts. I pulled out the dusty sewing machine (EVERYTHING is covered in dust thanks to the floors) the other day and finally mastered the art of sewing on patches. I’ve tried several times to do it by hand and they never seem to look quite right. No matter how many pins I put in to hold the patch in place, I still end up with a crooked patch.
Dalton’s very crooked karate patch sewn on by hand. At least with the way the shirt ties at an angle I don’t feel like you notice it as much.
AWANA’s patches sewn on using the machine….so much easier and I didn’t even break a needle! Unfortunately, I waited so long to sew the patches on that we have misplaced two of Addie’s little round patches. Maybe if we beg they will give us new ones?
Since I already had the sewing machine out, I was able to work on a shirt for Addie for our next highly anticipated family vacation.
The top bow will be attached to the shirt somehow to make Mickey into Minnie. I’m thinking one of those little snap on buttons that are common on infant clothing so I can take it off for easier cleaning? I’ll have to go peruse the craft store and see what I can find. The bottom bow is for Addie.
And since I was in a hair bow making mood anyway, I thought I would try and use up some of my current supply of ribbon so I can have an excuse to buy more.
I’m putting a lot of my current stock on sale. Bows pictured are $2.50 but I have others ranging from $1.00 to $2.50. Let me know if you’d like to rummage through my stash.
Here is a sneak peek of our new floors upstairs:
We had a ton of tile leftover from tiling the downstairs almost three years ago, so we finally are getting around to tiling both upstairs bathrooms. (I say we but I mean the nice man who is working tirelessly while I sit on the computer and work on crafts all day. There is no use in cleaning right?)
(Upstairs bathroom)
We decided to put laminate wood floors in all the open areas upstairs and along the stairs thanks to Belle’s little fiasco a few weeks ago.
(What I came home to the first time Belle had access to the house with the new doggie door.)
(New floors in the playroom)
(New floors leading to the master bedroom)
Once everything is done and it no longer looks like a bomb went off in our home, I’ll post pictures of the finished product.
Did I mention I don’t do well in a cluttered, messy house?!? More to come due to that in my next post.
